Post Profile

Words simply don’t do justice to any memory, argument, or work of fiction concocted in the mind. Language is an inadequate but necessary solution for addressing our disparate versions of reality.
The post Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Language appeared first on The Millions.read more

share

Related Posts

(Medica Research Institute) Latinos are the largest racial and ethnic group in the United States, and they comprise two-thirds of Americans with limited English proficiency (LEP). Language and Latino subgroup data are critical for p...

Functional programming languages are either strict or lazy. Strict languages evaluate all arguments to a function before calling it. Lazy languages don’t evaluate arguments until necessary, which may be never. Strict languages evalu...

Iris Murdoch’s emotionally hectic novels have been enjoying a comeback lately, with an excellent Radio 4 dramatisation of The Sea,…
The post Iris Murdoch’s letters just go on and on — as she herself was the first to admit appeared f...

Fiction, of course, is a work that is imagined from the mind, a different world than reality.
An argument can be made that there are two types of fiction when it comes to novels: Genre Fiction and Literary Fiction. The former includ...

You report (21 February) on research suggesting that Iris Murdoch’s use of language in later works such as Jackson’s Dilemma (1995) might be an indication of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. But I wonder whether Murdoch susp...